Using modern guitar techniques and modern methods on an early instrument is not a very clever thing to do, because it is the authentic spirit of the instrument that should dictate the quality and characteristic of the sound.

I've tried my hardest to bribe my chef, but my team have been clever and hired someone who not only is not bribeable but who chases me round the house and makes sure I eat what he's cooked, and he lays out my vitamin pills and supplements in front of me so I can't 'forget' to take them.

Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage.

With wives, men hide behind the air of bravado, which is basically a defence mechanism, I think. Clever creatures, women. Very clever.

I've only ever seen a couple tiny home spaces that are actually a clever use of space.

I had very clever producers, who scheduled it brilliantly, but scheduling it was a nightmare.

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

I think that the great presidents have always been a little more clever.

Simplicity is the key for me. I can't write clever songs; I just can't do it.

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

I'm not the sort of comedian who wants to make audiences think about politics. I'm not clever in that way.

Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that will erupt, sooner or later.

That's the only show where, if anyone says to me, 'Is there a role you want to play?', I say, yeah, I want to play Sweeney Todd. Stephen Sondheim's so clever; it's a profoundly brilliant piece of work.

DNA is a code of four letters; proteins are made up of amino acids which come in 20 forms. So the ribosome is a very clever machine that reads one language and operates in another.

There is no bore like a clever bore.

I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers.

Mark Watson and Paul Sinha have been exactly the same - very, very clever, and very, very thick.

Hillary Clinton is tough, clever, and formidably well briefed, and has been politically ambitious all her adult life.